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Finance, statistics, biology, mathematics, energy, manufacturing, education, fitness... (not trying to be condescending here)

I think software could be a great pairing with many other areas. I'm not sure if it's better to have software as a foundation or as second skill to add onto your area of expertise.




Primary skill, if you have ever had to look at the code from self taught bioinformaticians from biology backgrounds.


As a bioinformatician, I completely agree with you. My question is, which contributes more to the field? A specialist enabled by code, or a coder who has learned something of a second field?




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